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The HeyUGuys Interview – Barry Norman, CBE

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Cast your mind back to the pre-internet age (admittedly, a tough task) where film-related content was sparse, and finding out about the latest releases and industry news was an altogether frugal and challenging task. Luckily, there was one perennial TV figure who provided a regular means of getting your cinematic fix (providing your parents remembered [...]




First Poster and Featurette for HBO/BBC’s The Girl with Toby Jones & Sienna Miller

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Starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller as the real-life Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren, The Girl sees the great HBO and BBC partnering up for what promises to be a fascinating look at the director’s obsession with the star of The Birds and Marnie. Airing on HBO next Saturday, the first poster for the film [...]




New Elementary Character Images Arrive

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In what can only be described as healthy display of one-upmanship, CBS have gone ahead and created their own contemporary take on the Sherlock Holmes legend, entitled Elementary. We have done our own detective work and uncovered two new character posters (via kinopoisk) for the upcoming series. Starring Jonny Lee Miller (who recently appeared alongside [...]




First Teaser Trailer for HBO & BBC’s Hitchcock Drama, The Girl, with Toby Jones & Sienna Miller

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It’s no secret that the BBC and HBO make some of the finest television around, and so when the two partner together for a feature film, with Toby Jones and Sienna Miller in the leading roles, you know it’s going to be good. The film is due to air on both channels in a few [...]




Chris O’Dowd Will Lead HBO Comedy Family Tree

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Chris O’Dowd (Friends with Kids) has signed on to lead HBO comedy Family Tree. O’Dowd, whose been slowly making a name for himself with roles in Bridesmaids and fellow HBO series Girls, will take on the role of 30-year-old guy Tom Chadwick. Family Tree is set to follow Tom as he’s driven to uncover his [...]




First Footage and Interviews from the Set of Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’

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Over the weekend, the most glamorous F1 race of the season hit our TV screens as the Monaco Grand Prix was in full flow. During qualifying on Saturday, the BBC aired a brand new featurette for Ron Howard’s new movie, ‘Rush’ which gave us the first on-set footage and interviews from the movie. Rush focuses [...]




Baby Jake: Going on an Adventure DVD Review

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Created and produced by Maddy Darrell, who has also produced the children’s television shows Bear Behaving Badly and Pet Squad, Baby Jake blends animation and photo images to tell imaginative adventures starring a ten-month-old baby as his older brother narrates for the audience. The BBC has released a number of merchandising for babies and toddlers [...]




Sherlock Complete Series Blu-ray Review

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Thrusting the personas of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson into the twenty-first century could, in lesser hands, have been a severely misguided effort. The BBC’s series has now become one of the popular shows in recent years, winning a BAFTA and tipping the balance of back against the purveyance of reality TV against scripted drama [...]




Big Barn Farm DVD Reviews

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The Foundation are behind some of the most popular television shows for children for the past few years, including Mister Maker, Scorpion Island, Finger Tips, Dani’s House and Waybuloo. But one of their shows that is still airing on CBeebies since it’s debut in 2008 is Big Barn Farm, a live action television show that [...]




LOVEFiLM to Stream ITV and BBC Worldwide Archives

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Here’s yet another amazing step for LOVEFiLM as today we’ve have news that the UK’s biggest movie rental service has partnered with ITV and BBC worldwide to announce that you’ll be able to stream archived footage from the TV’s archives as well as more recent content. The web really is brining all this together and [...]




Spooks series 10 DVD review

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Spooks is the long-running BBC TV series depicting the multitude of challenges facing the fictional Section D in the British Security Service as they strive to protect Britain from its enemies both within and without. This 10th and final series builds to a massive climax by exploring the secrets in the past of  the ever-dependable [...]




Dr Who Heading to the Big Screen Under Harry Potter Director

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‘Who’ saw this coming??? According to Variety, ‘Harry Potter’ director David Yates will bring the BBC’s long-running, much-loved primetime sci-fi series Doctor Who to the cinema screen! Yates is due to commence development on the feature very soon, alongside the US-based BBC Worldwide executive VP of programming and production, Jane Tranter. Little is known about [...]




Halloween Video Vault: Ghostwatch

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Long time readers of the site will have seen this before as I’m reposting my love letter to Stephen Volk’s Ghostwatch on the occasion of Hallowe’en. A year shy of its twentieth anniversary it remains a landmark of paranormal drama and has just been reissued on DVD at a ridiculously low price. Things have changed [...]




Ben Stiller is now Being Lined up to Rentaghost

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For those of you who can remember the kids BBC series called Rentaghost (it ran from 1976-84) the idea of a Hollywood remake was a surreal enough to begin with, even with Britain’s very own US import Russell Brand in the lead. But now news from Deadline has Ben Stiller taking over from the comic, [...]




On-set Photos From New Series of Hustle

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Fans of BBC’s TV series “Hustle” will be pleased to know that another series is in production and I was lucky enough to catch up with them when they were filming on London’s South Bank. “Hustle” has been running since 2004 on the BBC and this marks the eighth series since its inception by creator [...]




Walk on the Wild Side Series 2 Review

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Sometimes it’s the simplest things in life that are the most rewarding. Walk on the Wild Side, if you’ve never heard of it before, takes clips from wildlife shows and adds comedian’s voices over the top to impersonate the animals. A simple yet very effective form of comedy, this show is perfect for a Saturday [...]




Paul Bettany, Brian Cox, And Stephen Graham To Make Nick Murphy’s Blood

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Until recently, writer-director Nick Murphy’s credits mostly included a few episodes of the odd TV series or documentary. He’s now starting to make a big name for himself with his first feature film, The Awakening, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, due out in November. Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again [...]




New Trailer And Images For British Spy Drama Page Eight

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In my mind, the British take on spy dramas is consistently better than any of our international counterparts. A new trailer and images for Sir David Hare’s Page Eight have just been released, courtesy of Rope of Silicon, and they’re a prime example of just how good we do things here. The film debuted back [...]